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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Barbara Walters

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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New Party Person Shallow Year
The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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Food Friendship Human Modern Origin Share
I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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Benefits Office Thinking
Don’t worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead.
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Heart President Worry
I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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Myself Office Personal Relationship Thinking Work
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
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Command Greatness Intelligence People Thinking Willing Word
The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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Bigger Castro Feelings
Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?
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Fire Hug President
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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Children Self Sleep
Although I myself don’t go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it’s superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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Church Literature Superstitions
A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
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Career Change Job Life Myself Start Thinking
To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I’ve done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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People Thinking Voice
If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
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Aggression Authority Best Man Woman Word
All of the religions – with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn’t believe in a heaven – teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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Believe Buddhism Heaven
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
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Obscure People Thinking
A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Competition Conversation

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

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